Sanitary douche pan



Oct. 19} 1937. s, RQMEQ 2,096,651

- SANITARY DOUCHE PAN Filed NOV. 11, 1956 9 Salvatore Romeo INVENTOR myazm ea.

ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 19, 1937 I p I i p UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SANITARY DOUCHE PAN Salvatore Romeo, Corona, N. Y.

Application November 11, 1936, Serial No. 110,371

4 Claims. (Cl. 46)

The present invention relates tosanitary invention may be used in a sitting position, in douche or bed pans and has for its general object that the patient may occupy same by being seated the provision of a receptacle of this character on the platform 8 provided mainly for this purwhich may be used with equal facility either in a pose. The platform 8 may also serve in emptying 4 5 standing position astride the pan or in a sitting the pan 4 as a baflle to prevent spilling the con- 5 or prone position and without discomfort to the tents. 7 patient. When the douche pan is to be used with the Another object resides in the provision of a patient in standing position, the patient assumes douche pan having for use therewith a supporting a posture astride the pan with the legs of the user 10 structure or stand on which the pan is removably disposed in the arcuate recesses 9, the supporting positioned soas to permit the use of the pan in frame being of such height as tosupport the pan any of the positions above mentioned and further at the proper elevation.

to provide for convenient removal of the pan from It is to be understood that this improvement the stand to facilitate emptying and cleaning of is capable of extended application and is not consame. fined to the exact showing of the drawing nor to 15 The invention will be fully and comprehensively the precise construction described and, therefore, understood from a consideration of the following such changes and modifications may be made detailed description when read in connection with therein as do not affect the spirit of the invention the accompanying drawing which forms part of 'nor exceed the scope thereof as expressed in the the application. appended claims. I 20 In the drawing: 7 What is claimed as new is: s Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the douche pan 1. A device of the character described comprison the stand for same, ing a substantially rectangular pan having up- Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device as illustrated standing end an n itudinal walls, said lo in Fig. 1; and r tudinal walls being arcuately directed to present 25 Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken on line a constricted intermediate formation of'said pan,v 33-of Fig. 2. a portion of said pan being covered by a platform Referring now to the drawing for a more demounted on said longitudinal walls and integrally tailed description thereof, the numeral 4 indiunited therewith. i cates generally the douche pan preferably of .2. A device of the character described compris- 30 shallow structure and comprising a bottom meming a substantially rectangular pan having upber 5 and up-standing side walls 6 and end walls standing end and longitudinal walls, said longi- I, the latter being arcuately formed substantially tudinal walls being arcuately directed to present as illustrated. The pan 4 is open on a substana constricted intermediate formation of said pan, tial portion of its top area and has arranged a portion of said pan being covered by a platform 35 thereon, preferably at one end, a platform 8 semounted on said longitudinal walls and integrally cured at its periphery to the walls 6 and l and united therewith, and a supporting structure'for being inclined toward the center of the pan 4. said pan comprising a plurality of uprights having The pan 4 is constricted at its intermediate shoulder portions thereon for engagement with 40 portion to form arcuate recesses 9. Thepreferred said pan. 40

structure for support of the pan 4 is illustrated 3. A deviceof the character described compris' substantially in Fig. 1 and comprises a plurality ing a substantially rectangular pan having up-[ I of uprights for legs ID forming a frame structure standing end and longitudinal walls, said longi including cross pieces ll extending between pairs tudinal walls being arcuately directed to present of the legs I0 and a stretcher member I2 joining a constricted intermediate formation of said pan,

pairs of cross pieces I l and having brace members a portion of said pan being covered by a platform,

13 secured thereto so as to reinforce the legs I0. disposed in substantially parallel relationship rel- In order to removably retain the pan 4 on the ative to the bottom of said pan, said platform beframe structure comprising the legs H] the latter ing mounted on said longitudinal walls and in-.

are each notched out at the upper end thereof to tegrally united therewith by substantially fiuid- 50 form a shoulder portion l4. The bottom 5 of the impervious sealing means, and a framework for pan 4 rests against the shoulders l4 and the adsupport of said pan comprising a plurality of jacent free end of the legs in extend in contact interconnected uprights, each of said uprights bewith the end walls I of the pan 4. ing cut away at the top end to form a step for It will be apparent that the douche pan of the engagement with said pan. 55

4. A douche pan of the type herein described comprising a substantially rectangular pan comprising a substantially horizontal bottom and a plurality of substantially vertical sides, said pan 5 being arcuately recessed in the sides thereof in a manner to conform with the users body, a substantially flat and imperforate platform mounted on said vertical side pieces and integrally united therewith whereby a relatively fluid-impervious seal is established between said platform and said side pieces.

SALVATORE ROMEO. 

